~Gail Sheehy
Have you ever done something dumb? We were talking at work yesterday about things we have done that is not only dumb, but funny.
The only one I could come up with (okay, okay, that I would own up to) is the time I made homemade ice cream for my husband. A friend had brought some in a big tupperware container to the cook out we had one weekend and my husband LOVED it.
So being the good wife I am, I asked for the recipe. Made it, put it in my big tupperware container and stuck it in the freezer to surprise him one night.
While eating it, he had a funny look on his face. “Hon, why is it icy?”
I took a bite. Tasted good, just not creamy. Promptly called my friend to find out what went wrong.
Did you add this? Yes
Did you stir in this? Of course
Did you…did you…did you… Yes…yes…yes…I made it just like the recipe you gave me!
Well, what kind of ice cream freezer do you have?
Ice cream freezer?
I had no clue you had to churn it in an ice cream freezer. Color me stoopid.
Okay your turn.
While you are thinking, below are some I found on the internet lately.
Again, these are not my works!
…I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those “dividers” that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn’t get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the “divider”, looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she said to me, “Do you know how much this is?” I said to her “I’ve changed my mind, I don’t think I’ll buy that today.” She said “OK,” and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue to what had just happened.
…A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When asked what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM “thingy.”
…Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, “I’m almost out of typing paper. What do I do?” “Just use copy machine paper,” the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five “blank” copies.
…A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid was eating ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and should be fine, the mother says, I just gave him some ant killer….. Dispatcher: Rush him in to emergency!
~Sandy
